Our Chief Meaning Officer, David Intrator, had an interesting exchange with Claude a few weeks back. David was working on an essay for a personal Substack newsletter he publishes about music and culture. After drafting it, he asked Claude to check for typos, spacing, questionable diction, and "anything weird or illogical in the overall structure." After catching a few misspellings and questioning a few word choices, Claude said the essay was ready to publish. But on further review, David realized it had a major structural flaw: it was really two essays in one. There was no Unifying Idea holding the piece together. When he brought this up with Claude, here was the response: "I'm better at evaluating pieces in isolation than I am at seeing the whole from the outside, especially when I've been involved in building it. Investment in the...